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Connecting People to Restore Just Relations

Why restorative justice matters?

"Restorative justice matters because respect for human dignity matters, solidarity within diverse societies matter, justice matters and truth matters." - Watch Tim Chapman (former Chair of the EFRJ Board) outlining the significance of restorative justice for our societies today in the first part of our short video series. 

Restorative Justice is an approach of addressing harm or the risk of harm through engaging all those affected in coming to a common understanding and agreement on how the harm or wrongdoing can be repaired and justice achieved.
The European Forum for Restorative Justice aims to help establish and develop victim-offender mediation and other restorative justice practices. Every person in Europe should have the right of access to restorative justice services, at any time and in any case.
Want to learn more? Follow these links.

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This call serves to update our database on teaching programmes on restorative justice. Please submit your courses by 10 January 2025. Only teaching programmes at the university level will be included on the EFRJ database, but you can always let us know about other teaching (or even training) programmes that can be included in an internal database at the EFRJ Secretariat. 

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update on the organisation

The call for participants to join one of our Committees or Working Groups has been launched! EFRJ members (with active or new membership) can apply before 13 January (extended deadline) to max two groups. If you know experts in the different areas beyond the EFRJ membership please invite them to join us for the next two years mandates.

 

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EFRJ event

We are looking forward to welcoming the participants of the 3rd Winter Academy in Leuven (Belgium) between 3-7 February 2025 on the two specialised courses. They can learn about the essentials of restorative justice and imprisonment; or acquire basic skills of restorative training delivery from some of the most inspiring and engaging experts in the field. Both courses are full at the moment, but you can sign up for the waiting list. 

The "Restorative Justice in Local Communities Around the World" series is a special initiative by the International Institute for Restorative Practices in partnership with the European Forum for Restorative Justice EFRJ, featured on the "Restorative Works!" podcast. This five-episode series marking the 2024 Restorative Justice Week showcases the diverse and impactful applications of restorative justice in local communities across the globe.

Child-led and child-friendly creative games and activities about restorative justice developed by the members of the youth advisory boards in the i-Restore 2.0 project. 

In this article, Jorge Ollero analyses the contents of the Navarrese Law on Restorative Justice and explains how the Council of Europe’s recommendations were influential in its creation. Through his analysis, Ollero discusses possibilities for regulation of restorative justice, using the example of Spain where the central government has exclusive legislative powers over criminal proceedings.